ABSTRACT
It must be assumed that physicians who wish to write for the medical literature are already familiar with examples and exercises involving such important writing details as parallel construction, agreement of subject and verb, references of pronouns, dangling, trailing and misplaced modifiers, and other grammatical obligations. The prospective physician author should also carefully review the Information for Authors section in the journals that he or she is considering for the editorial review of the planned manuscript. Ranking as equal in importance with the content matter of the written material is the need for readers of the published journal article to be able to clearly understand what has been written in the article. Theoretically, a good outline design should lead to an interesting piece of writing because, without a preliminary outline, the structure and substance of the medical writing may lead to a finished product that appears to many readers to be disorganized.
